Santiniketan is a small town in West Bengal, India. It was here that Rabrindenath Tagore - polymath and native of Kolkata - began Visva-Bharati, a liberal arts university. Though innovative in many areas, Visva-Bharati emphasized the relationship...

One of my favorite parts of volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Sick and Dying Destitute was crawling on the rooftops to lay out the daily laundry in the Indian sun. These pants are wrapped and then tied around the men who come to the...